Entelechy Is the Belief that Everything Living or Nonliving Serves a Purpose in the World

In researching information about Aristotle, I found many articles that proclaimed him to be the greatest philosopher of the ancient world. I thought about other philosophers we have studied this semester, especially Socrates and as I compared them to each other, I was surprised to find how different their philosophical methods are. Socrates played the role of Aristotle's mentor yet they were very different thinkers. Socrates believed in proving things by math and science while Aristotle took a more spiritual approach and believed that everything could be formed from above. …